Foreign News: The People & the Future

To the plain people of Germany the future is a blank spacewhen they
have time to think of it. Mostly they don't, since the present holds
too many problems of bare existence. But last week, in flattened
Frankfurt, TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth found a German civilian,
ex-mayor of a nearby town, who had thought earnestly about the future.
Knauth's report:

This German is an expressive, voluble man, and he grasped his head with
both hands and said: "When I start thinking about the problem of
reconstruction alone my head swims. How in God's name are we ever going
to rebuild this city?...